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  Alanis Morissette
  Alanis Nadine Morissette (born June 1, 1974) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, record producer and actor. She has won 16 Juno Awards and seven Grammy Awards.
  http://wn.com/Alanis_Morissette
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  Annie Nightingale
  Anne "Annie" Nightingale MBE (born 1 April 1942) is an English radio broadcaster. She is most commonly known by the more informal name of Annie. She was the first female presenter on BBC Radio 1 and, since the death of John Peel in October 2004, is its longest-serving presenter.
  http://wn.com/Annie_Nightingale
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  Beck
  Beck Hansen (born Bek David Campbell; July 8, 1970) is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist known by the stage name Beck. With a pop art collage of musical styles, oblique and ironic lyrics, and postmodern arrangements incorporating samples, drum machines, live instrumentation and sound effects, Beck has been hailed by critics and the public throughout his musical career as being amongst the most creative and idiosyncratic musicians of 1990s and 2000s alternative rock.
  http://wn.com/Beck
• Happy Mondays
  Happy Mondays are an English alternative rock band from Salford, Greater Manchester. Formed in 1980, the band's original line-up was Shaun Ryder on lead vocals, his brother Paul Ryder on bass, lead guitarist Mark Day, keyboardist Paul Davis, and drummer Gary Whelan. Mark "Bez" Berry would later join the band onstage during a live performance after befriending Shaun Ryder and served as a dancer/percussionist/chemist. Rowetta Satchell joined the band to provide backing vocals in the early 1990s.
  http://wn.com/Happy_Mondays
• John Peel
  John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, OBE (30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004), known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter and journalist. He was the longest-serving of the original BBC Radio 1 DJs, broadcasting regularly from 1967, until his death in 2004. He was known for his eclectic taste in music and his honest and warm broadcasting style. He was one of the first broadcasters to play psychedelic rock, reggae and punk records on British radio, and he is widely acknowledged for promoting artists working in various genres including alternative rock, indie rock, pop, hardcore punk, grindcore, death metal, British hip hop and dance music.
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  Krist Novoselic
  Krist Anthony Novoselic II (; ) (born May 16, 1965) is an American Croat rock musician, best known for being the bassist and co-founder of the grunge band Nirvana. In addition to Nirvana, Novoselic has played for Sweet 75, Eyes Adrift, and most recently in Flipper. Apart from his musical endeavors, Novoselic has been active politically, including the creation of the political action committee JAMPAC. Since November 2007, Novoselic has written a weekly column on music and politics for ''Seattle Weekly's'' website.
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  Kurt Cobain
  Kurt Donald Cobain (pronounced , ; February 20, 1967 – c. April 5, 1994) was an American singer-songwriter, musician, and artist, best known as the lead singer and guitarist of the grunge band Nirvana.
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  Liz Phair
  Elizabeth Clark "Liz" Phair (born April 17, 1967) is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist.
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  Lou Reed
  Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed (born March 2, 1942) is an American rock musician, songwriter, and photographer. He is best known as guitarist, vocalist, and principal songwriter of The Velvet Underground, and for his successful solo career, which spans several decades and crosses multiple genres. The Velvet Underground gained little mainstream attention during their career, but became one of the most influential bands of their era. As the Velvet Underground's main songwriter, Reed wrote about subjects of personal experience that rarely had been examined so openly in rock and roll, including a variety of sexual topics and drug culture. He is responsible for the popularization of ostrich tuning.
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  Michael Azerrad
  Michael Azerrad is an American author, journalist and musician. He grew up in the New York City area and received his BA degree from Columbia College in 1983. During his college years, he was both a roommate and a bandmate of keyboard virtuoso Marc Capelle (who later went on to become a member of American Music Club.)
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  Morrissey
  Steven Patrick Morrissey (born 22 May 1959), known primarily as Morrissey, is an English singer and songwriter. He rose to prominence in the 1980s as the lyricist and vocalist of the alternative rock band The Smiths. After the band's break-up in 1987, Morrissey began a solo career, making the top ten of the UK Singles Chart in the United Kingdom on ten occasions. Widely regarded as an important innovator in indie music, Morrissey has been described by music magazine NME as "one of the most influential artists ever," and The Independent has stated that "most pop stars have to be dead before they reach the iconic status that he has reached in his lifetime." Pitchfork Media has called him "one of the most singular figures in Western popular culture from the last 20 years."
  http://wn.com/Morrissey
• Neil Strauss
  Neil Darrow Strauss (born October 13, 1973), also known by the pen names Style and Chris Powles, is an American and Kittitian author, journalist and ghostwriter. He is best known for his best-selling book , where he describes his experiences in the seduction community in an effort to become "a pick-up artist." He is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone and also writes regularly for The New York Times.
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  Noel Gallagher
  Noel Thomas David Gallagher (born 29 May 1967) is an English musician, best known as the former principal songwriter, lead guitarist, and occasional vocalist of English rock band Oasis. Raised with younger brother Liam Gallagher in Burnage, Manchester, Gallagher began learning guitar at the age of thirteen. After a series of odd jobs in construction, Gallagher joined local Manchester band, Inspiral Carpets as a roadie and technician in 1988. Whilst touring with the Inspiral Carpets, he learnt that Liam had formed a band of his own, known as The Rain, which eventually took on the name "Oasis". After Gallagher returned to England, he was invited by Liam to join Oasis as songwriter and guitarist.
  http://wn.com/Noel_Gallagher
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  Patti Smith
  Patricia Lee "Patti" Smith (born December 30, 1946) is an American singer-songwriter, poet and visual artist, who became a highly influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses. Called the "Godmother of Punk", she integrated the beat poetry performance style with three-chord rock. Smith's most widely known song is "Because the Night", which was co-written with Bruce Springsteen and reached number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1978. In 2005, Patti Smith was named a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture, and in 2007, she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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  Perry Farrell
  Perry Farrell (born Peretz Bernstein on 29 March 1959) is the frontman for the alternative rock band Jane's Addiction. Farrell created the touring festival Lollapalooza as a farewell tour for Jane's Addiction in 1991; it has since evolved into an annual destination festival. Farrell continues to produce Lollapalooza with partners William Morris Agency and C3. Farrell has led the alternative rock groups Porno For Pyros and Satellite Party.
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  Phil Spector
  Harvey Philip Spector (born December 26, 1939) is an American record producer and songwriter. The originator of the "Wall of Sound" production technique, Spector was a pioneer of the 1960s girl group sound and produced over 25 Top 40 hits between 1960 and 1965 alone. After this initial success, Spector later worked with artists including Ike and Tina Turner, John Lennon, George Harrison, and the Ramones with similar acclaim.
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  Sebadoh
  Sebadoh is an American indie rock band, formed in 1986 in Westfield, Massachusetts by Eric Gaffney and Dinosaur Jr bass player Lou Barlow. Along with such bands as Pavement and Guided by Voices, Sebadoh helped pioneer lo-fi music, a style of indie rock characterized by low-fidelity recording techniques, often on four-track machines. The band's early output, such as 1990's Weed Forestin' and 1991's Sebadoh III, was typical of this style.
  http://wn.com/Sebadoh
• Simon Reynolds
  Simon Reynolds (born 1963 in London, England; raised in Hertfordshire) is an English music critic who is well-known for his writings on electronic dance music and for coining the term "post-rock". Besides electronic dance music, Reynolds has written about a wide range of artists and musical genres, and has written books on post-punk and rock. He has contributed to Melody Maker (where he first made his name), The New York Times, Village Voice, Spin, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, The Observer, Artforum, New Statesman, The Wire, Mojo, Uncut, and others. He currently resides in the East Village in New York City, USA with his wife, Joy Press, and their children, Kieran and Tasmine.
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• Slint
  Slint was an American rock band consisting of Brian McMahan (guitar and vocals), David Pajo (guitar), Britt Walford (drums), Todd Brashear (bass on Spiderland) and Ethan Buckler (bass on Tweez). They formed in Louisville, Kentucky, United States in 1985 and disbanded following the recording of their second album, Spiderland, in 1991.
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• Terry Tolkin
  Terry Tolkin was the Vice President of A&R; at Elektra Records from 1992 to 1996. He signed a number of critically acclaimed alternative rock bands, including Luna, Stereolab, Afghan Whigs, Scrawl, Jennyanykind and Nada Surf. In addition to his work at Elektra, Terry ran the independent label No.6 Records, which released singles and albums by acts such as The Tindersticks, Charles Douglas, Unrest, Vegetarian Meat, Jule Brown and Dean Wareham. In the early 1980s he worked for Touch & Go Records where he signed the Butthole Surfers and the Virgin Prunes among other bands. Terry was also known for his work as a DJ and booker at popular New York clubs such as Danceteria, CBGBs, and Limelight. He also worked at the seminal 99 Records store in Greenwich Village, the birthplace of Liquid Liquid and ESG.
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  The Cure
  The Cure are an English rock band formed in Crawley, West Sussex in 1976. The band has experienced several line-up changes, with frontman, vocalist, guitarist and principal songwriter Robert Smith being the only constant member. The Cure first began releasing music in the late 1970s with their debut album Three Imaginary Boys (1979); this, along with several early singles, placed the band as part of the post-punk and New Wave movements that had sprung up in the wake of the punk rock revolution in the United Kingdom. During the early 1980s, the band's increasingly dark and tormented music helped form the gothic rock genre.
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  Thurston Moore
  Thurston Joseph Moore (born July 25, 1958 in Coral Gables, Florida) is an American musician best known as a singer, songwriter and guitarist of Sonic Youth. He has participated in many solo and group collaborations outside of Sonic Youth, as well as running the Ecstatic Peace! record label.
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• Violent Femmes
  Violent Femmes were an American alternative rock band that existed from 1980 to 2009, originally formed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The band performed as a trio, including: singer, guitarist and songwriter Gordon Gano, bassist Brian Ritchie, and two drummers, Victor DeLorenzo (1980-1993/2002-2009) and Guy Hoffman (1993-2002).
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• Wendy Fonarow
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  Boston
  Boston (pronounced ) is the capital and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. Boston city proper had a 2009 estimated population of 645,169, making it the twentieth largest in the country. Boston is also the anchor of a substantially larger metropolitan area called Greater Boston, home to 4.5 million people and the tenth-largest metropolitan area in the country. Greater Boston as a commuting region includes six Massachusetts counties, Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk, Suffolk, Plymouth, and Worcester, all of Rhode Island and parts of New Hampshire; it is home to 7.5 million people, making it the fifth-largest Combined Statistical Area in the United States.
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  Liverpool
  Liverpool () is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a borough in 1207 and was granted city status in 1880. Liverpool is the fourth largest city in the United Kingdom (third largest in England) and has a population of 435,500, and lies at the centre of the wider Liverpool Urban Area, which has a population of 816,216.
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  Los Angeles
  Los Angeles ( ; , Spanish for "The Angels") is the second most populous city in the United States, the most populous city in the state of California and the western United States, with a population of 3.83 million within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Los Angeles extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of over 14.8 million and it is the 14th largest urban area in the world, affording it megacity status. The metropolitan statistical area (MSA) is home to nearly 12.9 million residents while the broader Los Angeles-Long Beach-Riverside combined statistical area (CSA) contains nearly 17.8 million people. Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated and one of the most multicultural counties in the United States. The city's inhabitants are referred to as "Angelenos" ().
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• Manchester
  Manchester () is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. In 2009, the population of the city was estimated to be 483,800, making it the seventh-most populous local authority district in England. Manchester lies within one of the UK's largest metropolitan areas; the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester had an estimated population of 2,600,100, the Greater Manchester Urban Area a population of 2,240,230, and the Larger Urban Zone around Manchester, the second-most-populous in the UK, had an estimated population in the 2004 Urban Audit of 2,539,100. The demonym of Manchester is Mancunian.
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  Minneapolis
  Minneapolis (), nicknamed "City of Lakes" and the "Mill City," is the county seat of Hennepin County, the largest city in the U.S. state of Minnesota, and the 48th largest in the United States. Its name is attributed to the city's first schoolteacher, who combined mni, the Dakota word for water, and polis, the Greek word for city.
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  Seattle
  Seattle ( ) is the northernmost major city in the contiguous United States, and the largest city in the Pacific Northwest and in the state of Washington. A seaport situated on an isthmus between Puget Sound (an arm of the Pacific Ocean) and Lake Washington, about south of the Canada – United States border, it is named after Chief Sealth "Seattle", of the Duwamish and Suquamish native tribes. Seattle is the center of the Seattle–Tacoma–Bellevue metropolitan statistical area, the 15th largest in the United States, and the largest in the northwestern United States. Seattle is the county seat of King County and is the major economic, cultural and educational center in the region. , the city's population was approximately 617,000 within a metropolitan area of some 3.4 million inhabitants. The Port of Seattle and Seattle–Tacoma International Airport are major gateways to Asia, Alaska, and the rest of the world.
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  The Haçienda
  Fac 51 Haçienda (better known simply as The Haçienda) was a nightclub and music venue in Manchester, England. It became most famous during the "Madchester" years of the late 1980s and early 1990s, during the 1990s it was labelled the most famous club in the world by Newsweek magazine. The Haçienda opened in 1982, and despite considerable and persistent financial troubles survived until 1997 – during much of this time the club was mainly supported by record sales from New Order. The Haçienda is associated with the rise of acid house and rave music.
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  United Kingdom
  The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK, or Britain) is a country and sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island nation, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of the island of Ireland, and many smaller islands. Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK with a land border with another sovereign state, sharing it with the Republic of Ireland. Apart from this land border, the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel and the Irish Sea. Great Britain is linked to continental Europe by the Channel Tunnel.
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  United States
  The United States of America (also referred to as the United States, the U.S., the USA, or America) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Caribbean and Pacific.
  http://wn.com/United_States

• Alanis Morissette
• Alice in Chains
• Allmusic
• Alternative dance
• Alternative metal
• Amnesiac
• Annie Nightingale
• Arts in Seattle
• Badmotorfinger
• bass guitar
• Bauhaus (band)
• BBC News
• BBC Radio 1
• Be Here Now (album)
• Beach Boys
• Beck
• Bela Lugosi's Dead
• Big Black
• Billboard 200
• blues rock
• Blur (band)
• Boston
• British Invasion
• Britpop
• Bush (band)
• C86 (music)
• Camper Van Beethoven
• Campus radio
• Candlebox
• cassette tapes
• Cherry Red
• Chorus effect
• Cocteau Twins
• Coldplay
• college radio
• College rock
• commercialism
• Creed (band)
• cult following
• Dinosaur Jr
• disc jockey
• Dischord Records
• disco
• DIY punk ethic
• do it yourself
• Dream pop
• Drum kit
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• Electric guitar
• Empire of Dirt
• Entertainment Weekly
• Factory Records
• Faith No More
• fanzines
• Firehose (band)
• FM radio
• folk music
• Foo Fighters
• Fugazi (band)
• glam metal
• glam rock
• Goldfinger (band)
• goth subculture
• gothic rock
• Grammy Awards
• Green Day
• Grunge
• Guitar World
• Happy Mondays
• hardcore punk
• Heavy metal music
• Hip hop music
• Horses (album)
• house music
• Hüsker Dü
• In Utero
• Independent music
• Indie pop
• Indie rock
• Industrial rock
• Interpol (band)
• Jane's Addiction
• Jangle pop
• jazz
• John Peel
• Johnny Marr
• Joy Division
• keyboard instrument
• Kid A
• Kranky Records
• Krautrock
• Krist Novoselic
• KROQ-FM
• Kurt Cobain
• Less Than Jake
• Liverpool
• Liz Phair
• Lo-fi music
• Lollapalooza
• Los Angeles
• Lou Reed
• Lush (band)
• Madchester
• Manchester
• Matador Records
• Matchbox Twenty
• Math rock
• Merge Records
• Metal Machine Music
• Michael Azerrad
• Ministry (band)
• Minneapolis
• Modern rock
• Modest Mouse
• Morrissey
• MSNBC
• MTV
• Mudhoney
• Murmur (album)
• Muse (band)
• Music of Illinois
• Music of Los Angeles
• Music of Manchester
• Neil Strauss
• Nevermind
• New Music Seminar
• New Order
• New Wave music
• Nine Inch Nails
• Nirvana (band)
• NME
• No Doubt
• Noel Gallagher
• Noise pop
• Noise rock
• nu-metal
• Oasis (band)
• Ogg
• OK Computer
• Paisley Underground
• Patti Smith
• Pavement (band)
• Pearl Jam
• Perry Farrell
• Phil Spector
• Pixies
• PJ Harvey
• pop music
• post modern
• Post-Britpop
• Post-grunge
• post-punk
• Post-punk revival
• Post-rock
• Primal Scream
• progressive rock
• Psychobilly
• Public Image Limited
• Pulp (band)
• Punk rock
• R.E.M.
• radio format
• Radiohead
• rap-rock
• Reel Big Fish
• Ride (band)
• Riot Grrrl
• rock music
• Rockism
• Rolling Stone
• Save Ferris
• Seattle
• Sebadoh
• Sex Pistols
• Shoegazing
• Sigur Rós
• Simon Reynolds
• ska punk
• Sleater-Kinney
• Slint
• Slowdive
• Sonic Youth
• Soundgarden
• Sounds (magazine)
• Soup Dragons
• Spiderland
• Spin (magazine)
• SST Records
• Sub Pop
• Suede (band)
• Superchunk
• Superunknown
• Talk Talk
• techno
• Terry Tolkin
• The Cure
• The Feelies
• The Haçienda
• The Killers
• The New York Times
• The Pastels
• The Rapture (band)
• The Sisters of Mercy
• The Smiths
• The Stone Roses
• The Strokes
• The Sugarcubes
• The Wedding Present
• The White Stripes
• They Might Be Giants
• Thrill Jockey
• Thurston Moore
• Ticketmaster
• time signatures
• Too Pure
• top 40
• Tortoise (band)
• Touch and Go Records
• Travis (band)
• twee pop
• Twin/Tone Records
• UK Indie Chart
• umbrella term
• underground music
• United Kingdom
• United States
• Velvet Underground
• Violent Femmes
• Wall of Sound
• Weezer
• Wendy Fonarow
• word-of-mouth
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Tools: Use checked songs to create your playlist

• Here to Home
• Wannabesong
• Father
• Unique
• Joy's Dick
• Royal Family
• Jimmy
• 4 Banditos
• Alligator Song
• 3 of 9
• 23
• Between Days
• King Kong
• Stoned
• Coming Home
• Lucky Strike
• Viva Forever
• Cyborg
• Bong Song
• Summer Sellout
• Sunshine
• Dirty Place
• I Know What You Did Last Christmas
• Burning
• Boom Boom Bang

• Acid Drops
• Hello Goodbye
• Summer Sellout
• Profit
• Down
• Glad
• King of Loneliness
• Sweet Lullaby
• Common King
• Sunshine
• Dirty Place
• What It's Like
• Noble Jerk

• Baby Love (Love You Baby)
• Oh Baby
• There She Goes Again
• What's the Heck, Let's Discotheque
• Spend It on Love
• Checkin' It Out
• I Love You So Much
• Dancin' Shoes
• Tree of Love
• Always There
• Keep That Same Old Feeling
• Time Has No Ending
• S.O.S.
• Honky Tonk Scat
• Finally Found Someone
• Changes
• Life Is What You Make It
• I Know You Can

• King Kong
• L.D.O. Dog
• Dreiundzwanzig
• Boom Boom Bang
• Three of Nine
• Bis Dann
• Between Days
• Cuatros Banditor
• Scars
• Es Buen

• Grinder
• Reverse Talkshow
• Missing You
• Royal Family
• Luckiest Guy
• Mindcell
• Matchbox and a Dream
• Across the Universe
• Standing Still
• Golden Age of Progress
• Never Growing Up
• Unique

• Take a Chance 'N' Dance
• The Thrill Is Gone
• Georgy Porgy
• Close to Me
• I Feel It's Real
• Black Beauty
• Pretty Baby
• Catch It 'Fore It Falls
• Eleanor Rigby
• Superwoman

• Goin' Bananas
• Open Up Your Heart
• Watching Life
• Keep on Keepin' On
• It's All Your Mind
• Private World
• Mr. Monday
• Never Be the Same
• Back in Time
• Cloudburst

• Goin' Bananas
• Open Up Your Heart
• There She Goes Again
• S.O.S.
• Oh Baby
• Always There
• Finally Found Somoene
• Keep That Same Old Feeling
• Spend It on Love
• I Like Dreaming
• Falling in Love Again
• Watching Life
• Keep on Keepin' On
• She's a Lady
• Never Be the Same
• I Know You Can
• Cloudburst

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